the u.s. t.r. life nicer and because all of his advisors have different carry the light has or says he wants more tariffs again china and richard says that trade war should be evaded and then you have peter navarro who is a trade advisor he says that be careful how deal so ultimately who decides what to do well as i say that i think that's why they appointed light hisor i think for the chinese it's been very troubling because historically our china policy there's been somebody in charge the chinese know who to go to for example in the bush administration it was treasury secretary paulson so and we had a pretty good way of managing these issues in the trumpet ministration no one's in charge and there's several different voices with different policies and strong very difficult for the chinese with a first they made a deal with commerce secretary ross and then. vetoed it then they made the treasury deal with our treasury secretary and from veto that so from the chinese perspective it's like what do we

the uses has been -- the u.s. has been growing as an exporter refined products, something that doesn't always get as much attention as u.s. crude exports. but it's also exporting a lot of refined products. gasoline your diesel, and so on. it was just a matter of time basis, on a sustained the u.s. becomes a net exporter of oil. refined crude but products included. >> all right. thanks for joining us with your views on what we're seeing the oil market right now and the lack of an agreement from opec. an alertnt to give you at the moment. this is news coming from the japan.er in japan planning to exclude huawei from government use. so the pressure continuing to the up on huawei in following -- following the arrest of its c.f.o. in canada. japan planning to exclude huawei and zte from government use. just crossing now. still to come here on "daybreak: more" we'll be getting you on that story, as markets in continue to point higher after what was a pretty volatile day in the u.s. is bloomberg. ♪ >> we're moments awa

u.s. factory and a possible ford tire the comments come as german car makers defend their u.s. interests at the white house will it be enough to see the u.s. president drop threatens tariffs against european carmakers and germany may have self driving subway cars but it's got a lot of catching up to do when it comes to artificial intelligence. this is your business update on how the home frame by lead glad you could join me chairman to conjoin fox logon has announced that it is teaming up with the u.s. called make afford to build what it calls a global automotive alliance b w chief have it decided that his group was also considering building a second car plant in the united states well you know it's meant to came off to a meeting between german call makers and trump and a bid to swell of terrorists. the u.s. market is exceedingly important for german carmakers b.m.w. mercedes and v.w. all of the market as a whole is shrinking the german share of it is growing that means jobs in their three

let's let's let cooler heads prevail let's have sanity when the u.s. before the u.s. would drew from the a.b.m. treaty going back to two thousand and two the united nations general assembly passed a resolution calling for the continuation of the a.b.m. treaty and trying to stop the u.s. from withdrawing from that treaty now we've got just in the last month president trump has said that he has announced that the u.s. is going to withdraw from the i.n.f. treaty the intermediate nuclear weapons nuclear forces treaty so these are all bad signs and i think hopefully cooler heads will prevail and there will be a instead of an escalation of the arms race there should be a deescalation of it absolute let's hope both sides can get to the negotiating table and come up with some sort of compromise here on that strategic balance which they talk about journalists that rick starting thanks for your take today on that story. your one. and worsens times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with a chechen fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine hea

the new regulations are music to the ears for u.s. soybean farmers storage facilities for the soybeans are bursting at the seams china's been one of the u.s. is most important agricultural customers but during the recent trade dispute china stopped importing u.s. soil farmers held on to their crops now trade is blossoming again since china resumed importing soybeans chinese businesses as well as chinese consumers welcome the move. soybeans are one of the most important products china imports from the u.s. . there's a big domestic demand. the trade dispute has weighed on china's growth as the latest figures show in november retail and industrial production so well short of expectations the new economic ceasefire between the world's two largest economies gives both sides the opportunity to find additional win win solutions. we just saw it's not all good news coming from china today let's find out more with our financial correspondent jim acosta joining us right now that evening to you we're seeing heavy losses. most in a season wall str

the u.s. senate has unanimously approved a resolution blaming the saudi crown prince for the murder of journalist jamal khashoggi in istanbul in october the senate also passed a separate motion demanding a halt to u.s. military support for the saudi intervention in yemen that declaration was approved by fifty six votes to forty one both motions are present a clear challenge to president trump's policies on saudi arabia and also his refusal to scale back military ties with the country although in recent months there have been some conflicting signals coming from the administration. we need to have a serious hard talk with the saudis to let them know we won't condone north we won't give you a pass and don't do their thing in this is very very serious do i do i mean it's again it's early we haven't traditionally view we have identified at least some of the individuals responsible including those in the intelligence services the royal court the foreign ministry and other side the ministries who we

u.s. president donald trump backs away from demands that congress fund his border wall plus efforts to end america's longest fourth war the u.a.e. holds talks between the afghan taliban and the u.s. and the democratic republic of congo prepares to hold its first election in sixteen years but there are fears technology could get in the way of the folks. the three key power brokers in the syrian conflict have failed to agree on the makeup of a committee that will draft a new constitution and pave the way for elections the foreign ministers of russia iran and turkey met in geneva when a smith was saying and has this report. the best of the foreign ministers of turkey russia and iran could come up with was a commitment to agree to take efforts aimed at convening the first session of the syrian constitutional committee here in geneva early next year but there is still no indication on exactly who the hundred fifty members of that constitutional committee are going to be because of this meeting

the u.s. senate has passed a funding bill to keep the government running for now the temporary wrestler legislation was approved to avoid a complete federal shutdown after a deadlock over president trump's border wall and now need support from the house and approval from the president trying previously refused to sign a spending bill that did not include a five five billion dollars for the wall along the u.s. mexico border. of thousands of central american asylum seekers who wanted to reach the u.s. have had their hopes dashed many are being turned away at the border with some saying they have not been given the legal protections they are entitled to or are that hamid has more from nogales on the mexican side of the border. it's late afternoon that the chapel of the shelter starts filling up a mix of people brought together by their quest to enter to us. the teacher piniella says a hairdresser from guerrero one of the most violent states in mexico she owned a small cell and every week she was

the u.s. the major indices falling more than 3% with trade ensitive stocks like caterpillar boeing falling the most on the dow. banks, 500 was lower by the financial stocks really taking a hit as we continue to yield curve flattening, 66 s&p 500 financial index, out of 67 stocks were all in the red. the u.s. futures holding steady right now. those are the only things you as we head to e the national day of mourning tomorrow here in the u.s. trading on the new new stock york stock exchange. right now, futures holding steady, all of this, of course, will be affected by what happens in asia as well, sophie is there. sophie. coming online s falling .4 of 1% extending loss tuesday.t we saw on keeping an eye on copper miners in sydney as well as they may losses in the red metal as chinese concerns are back in focus as investors assess the spins coming from d.c. and beijing around the u.s. china trade truce. a selloff is expected to continue, head winds are piling brexit developments and unserment ov

turkey's intelligence chief has briefed u.s. senators about his country's investigation into the murder of saudi journalist jamal khashoggi there is growing pressure on the white house to hold saudi crown prince mohammed bin responsible for the killing. a u.s. sponsored resolution to condemn the hamas has failed to win enough votes in the u.n. general assembly it fell short of the required two thirds majority angering the u.s. ambassador nikki haley who said it would have been a chance to quote right and historic wrong. now an executive of the chinese tech giant trois away is due to face court in canada after being arrested at the request of the united states among one jews detents. has rattled global stocks as analysts fair it could worsen the trade dispute between the u.s. and china as he culhane reports from washington. from the very start it was going to be a day of losses stocks losing value at a fast clip on concerns the u.s. and china trade dispute is only going to get worse this is happening after news broke that at the

u.s. says it's warplanes have killed more than sixty al shabaab fighters in somalia. and the pristine landscape on the frontline of the global war on drugs we have a special report from. a u.n. brokered cease fire has come into effect in the yemeni city of her data but reports say sporadic fighting is still taking place in the embattled port the fighting pits saudi and u.a.e. backed government forces against the rebels in the area the warring sides had agreed on a truce during political talks held in sweden last week international observers are expected to arrive to monitor the cease fire is critical for the supply of food aid for millions of yemenis on the brink of starvation and there are many challenges on the ground for those international observers as out diplomatic editor james bays explains from the united nations. the u.n. security council has started work drawing up a draft resolution that would indorse what was agreed in stockholm last week and give a mandate for a u.n. monitorin

most of the u.s. governments of $1.2 trillion scratch shary budget has already been appropriated by congress for the fiscal year that began october 1. toas says its final goodbyes george h w bush. forchurch was packed services honoring the life of the 41st president. his body was flown there yesterday after a funeral service at washington national cathedral. today, james baker remembered his long-term friend as having the courage of a warrior but the greater courage of a peacemaker. >> for millions and millions across the globe, the world became a better place because george bush occupied the white house for four years. he was not considered a skilled speaker. were quite eloquent. eloquencerated their by carving them into the heart of granite of history. >> mr. bush will be laid to rest next to his wife of 72 years and their daughter, robin. off the coast of japan, a u.s. marine plane and a fighter jet collided in darkness today during routine training. one of the two crewmembers was recovered in the

u.s. interests, both in the region and the aunt. so we are here to talk about regard, andsome what not -- not in what we called china's billion-dollar infrastructure project, but the reaction to it and how reactions are evolving. aboutings are changing the way the chinese themselves and the government and party in beijing see it. to help us through that we have three find panelists. jeff smith's heritage's own research fellow covering south asia. heritage to the foundation over a year ago from the american foreign-policy counsel. -- foreign-policy counsel. -- foreign-policy council. he is also an author, and is an on that relationship and dynamic. jeff is the author of a heritage paper on the issue we are and you cant today, pick up a copy outside if you are watching online or on television, you can go to heritage.org and download a copy. he will talk about that in his remarks today. jeff will tell you i am his boss, and that is true, but i counted myself as the fortunate one because his o

u.s./china trade dispute, but then u.s. stateside stocks rallied off the lows after the "wall street journal" signaled the fed may be having a wait and see mode at itself december meeting. plenty of events in focus in europe oil is still on investors minds after opec failed to come out with production cuts after yesterday's meeting. so investors watching the oil space today. putting it together, it is a brighter picture in europe than yesterday. let's get into the different bourses and see how the regions are faring it's a green picture across the board. the french index is seeing one of the strongest gains among the main indices, up 1.25% the protests remain in focus there. we expect more this weekend. the ftse 100 up 1.6% with brexit firmly in focus. i want to take you through the sectors and see how they are faring green across the board dramatically different picture than yesterday these are healthy gains for the out-performers of the bunch. none breaking that 2% mark yesterday all in

u.s. court to being a foreign agent. politicized she has been put under psychological pressure. the french national assembly rejects a motion of no confidence in its government despite growing criticism of president handling of the yellow vest protests. israeli army conducts raids in ramallah checkpoints around what is the defacto capital of palestine the two israeli soldiers were killed and another injured in a shooting need the palestinian city. police launch an investigation into russian and by athletes over claims of doping at the time seventeen world championships the competitors deny the charges and say the rumors are not. watching all to international life from last year here in moscow with me in a day or two to welcome to the program. a russian national detained in the us and accused of being an unregistered foreign agent has entered a guilty plea at a washington d.c. court. but and i was told she faces up to five years behind bars could be deployed to acting though that this is ou

but according to the u.s. government the islamic state of iraq and the levant is not actually defeated a point stressed by the president's own state department just last week i think it's fair to say americans will remain on the ground after the physical defeat of the caliphate until we have the pieces in place to ensure that that defeatism during the move comes after a phone call between president trump and president urged one of turkey he's made clear he wants to target the kurds who have fought beside the u.s. and that is more difficult to do if u.s. troops are in his way just a few months ago the president himself is fully heralded as a sacrifice the kurds have made and we're trying to get along very well we do get along great with the kurds we're trying to help them a lot so they fought with us they died with us they died we lost tens of thousands of kurds died fighting isis now many worry what will happen to the kurds what this message sends is we don't stick with people our friends without the currents

german cars made in the u.s. a. the white house is the boss of three big carmakers pledge to create more jobs in the u.s. and reveal a surprising unlike. also on the show meanwhile in china beijing's push for home grown the car industry rings in a renascence for an old friend. welcome to d w business unlike jones a villain thanks for joining us well the fear of protectionism has prompted to german carmakers to act more investment in the u.s. and even an alliance with a u.s. com maker folks b.m.w. a getting out of the checkbooks to boost their presence in the american market and persuaded the u.s. president not to slap tariffs against european comic. they were summoned they came three german car industry titans call to the white house to make their case against higher tariffs on european made cars they weren't initially expecting to meet the president but in the end he too came here's how dire c.e.o. t. touches describes the encounter. the meeting with the president was very interesting and you can. come in this coun

we spoke to former u.s. congressman ron paul who gave us his take on some of the issues addressed by the russian president. i don't think it means that something horrible is eminent but i think it's a shame that that has happened because when we do that as american citizens we see our government doing this then there's a response from the russian government and i see that going in the wrong direction but i don't think it should be a great alarm that next month there will be a clash. and trump although he has his ups and downs i think that he has taken a good position he said he wanted to get out of out of syria and he said in the campaign he said that isis is not a threat there and that it's time to come home and i just want to be complete yes move the troops out our couple thousand troops but i want to make sure that you know the cia's out and the special forces are out and that we don't use sanctions and that we move in that direction where we just have hands off and deal with diplomacy and getting along w

we sell the u.s. blocking qualcomm and china not allowing qualcomm to take over nxp and that is all because of the trade wars and the technology between the two. it would be very difficult to go solo in this world. that is why the ecosystem is very important as we move forward. david: yes, it is not as if we could switch easily. help us understand how well huawei stacks up here in its b2b business? does anyone do it better than them? is one of the players. if you talk about the network , the numberoviders of network equipment providers in the industry is quite small. although this could make a case for some of the others to have a larger market share. it is something like this nationalg huawei from -- some of these 5g activities -- is not really good for the telecom industry. ,n the phone industry like this it possibly moves you from three major players to two major players, and that results in an increase in competition, a decrease in innovation. as a result, probably putting back a lot of 5g roadmap

ed: u.s. consumer confidence slumped in december to the lowest since july, the latest sign americans are growing less optimistic. people expecting more jobs in the next six months, had its biggest fall since 1977. the report from the new york-based conference board says the declines reflect increasing concern that economic growth will slow down in the first part of next year. the partial u.s. government shutdown will continue at least until the weekend, after has republicans said they did not schedule votes for friday. no sign of any progress toward a plan to fund nine government departments that closed after fundy rainout on december 31. and president trump tweeted most people are -- most federal employees losing pay our democrats. and raising a budget bill through parliament by the year in deadline. the customers of tax increase for charities is the latest hurdle to be cleared. a news conference will be held later, head of the later -- lower hospital on saturday. if they miss the deadline in

and junk she long u.s. prosecutors say they're linked to china's ministry of state security but that's something that chinese authorities deny. me from you so she's saying that the u.s. side is making groundless accusations against china on cyber security by fabricating facts and making up a story out of finny or the u.s. is charging two chinese in the name of so-called cyber theft this move seriously harms china u.s. cooperation and is in essence extremely nasty but the u.s. is not alone australia britain and new zealand also say they were targeted in what they called a global campaign of intellectual property theft as evidence by this investigation the threats we face have never been more severe or more pervasive or more potentially damaging to our national security and no country poses a broader more severe long term threat to our nation's economy and cyber infrastructure that china. the alleged chinese hackers have been indicted although they're not in the u.s. a move that will only worsen the sour rela

but u.s. lawmakers are not convinced democrats and republicans failed to reach agreement on funding the government democrats held out against trump's demand for five billion dollars to pay for the wall i don't think. you can do is any appetite. for war. funding the poor war a national security force. unanimously say one thing or person. around a quarter of the u.s. federal government has gone into shutdown the scene is in the house of representatives a reconvening in washington on saturday in the hope of a very full scale crisis over the holiday period. it's spring and michael in washington for us this evening michael will we see a little make is and the white house strikes some compromise deal to end this shutdown. well there is one rule in covering the trumpets ministration and that is that you can't really predict anything having said that. it is very unclear how this could play out and the easiest thing for everyone involved would be to simply kick the can down the road and basically fund

u.s. senate has ramped up the pressure on the saudi crown prince introducing a bill holding him accountable for jamal khashoggi is murder. hello talks are underway to end a catastrophic civil war that has devastated the arab world's poorest nation at stake the lives of millions of yemenis who've been pushed to the brink of starvation the u.n. which is sponsoring the talks in sweden wants to reopen sanaa airport is controlled by the who the rebels and has been largely destroyed in air rights carried out by the saudi an iraqi coalition which backs yemen's government the u.n. envoy mohsin griffiths also wants to shore up the central bank to prop up yemen's battered economy after the value of the reality plummeted but at the heart of these talks is a danger the rebel held port city that's both a battleground and a vital lifeline for millions most of yemen's food and medicine passes through there and the u.n. wants a cease fire albert reports from rimbaud in sweden. so it was a rare moment of a

but also the u.s. seems intent on pouring oil on the fire you know men well you know rand was just mentioned right here. in new britain a book about pax americana i mean i can i understood the post cold war i'm sorry post world war two order that was created by the united states i understand the intent behind it in the context of the cold war but after the cold war and the rise of this kind of neal. neo con ideology i mean a sane person wouldn't say focus all of american foreign policy on iran i mean there are that's obviously politics going on there and also if you look at some of the issues that the the u.s. is intruding upon it on the korean peninsula i mean the koreans are actually making some progress moving towards peace there but the u.s. is dragging its feet and it is planning it seemingly so planning a war against iran how is that possibly in the interest of anyone including americans. well it's very difficult to understand that's why something say that the only explanation possible is that so

i was u.s. china trade tensions send ripples across european markets use taking steps to ease its dependence on the dollar the european commission has unveiled plans to boost one of the euros to be used the use of the euro rather in international energy deals. this will allow european businesses to benefit from stronger ptolemy and finance themselves with reduced exposure to legal actions taken by third country jurisdictions brussels announcement comes just a short while after washington declared its withdraw from the iran nuclear deal the moves forced the many e.u. firms to stop trading with iran for fear of u.s. sanctions back in twenty fifteen an international deal was agreed to end sanctions on the country in exchange for tehran scrapping its nuclear program that opened up iran's lucrative oil market however this year trump quit that agreement disastrous all sanctions previously lifted were imposed which didn't set well with you are looking at the latest of president. bush. but if it's hard

u.s. defense secretary james mattis quits a day after president donald trump says he's pulling american forces out of syria. blown down jordan this is al jazeera live from doha also coming up. america and its many allies know what china's doing washington charges two chinese nationals accusing them of a massive talking operation denied by china. a shake up in saudi arabia's intelligence service off the murder of journalist. agents. and we hit the slopes into with hopes that ski help bring tourists to one of central ages poorest countries. in a sector of defense james mattis has resigned citing differences was president trump he said he's stepping down so the president can have a defense chief with views closer to his own when it comes a day off a trump announced u.s. troops withdrawal from syria michael reports from washington d.c. . thank you he is the real deal is the real deal the president trump initially surrounded himself with generals james mattis the secretary of defense michael fl

the u.s. . cooperation deal between. seeks a second meeting with. the. international into the for. the u.s. the defense secretary spent his christmas working at the pentagon even after donald trump abrupt decision to remove him from office two months earlier than he had planned to resign and james mattis wrote this to american soldiers. in this world to washington change you hold the line store. because of you you'll feel safe at home. last week after the u.s. president announced his decision to withdraw troops from syria he also advised donald trump to keep troops in afghanistan opposing the idea of using private contractors in war though now it seems that's precisely what could happen next. imagine you're sitting there on your porch reading about guns and huntin and all things good and then you see this ad we are coming blackwater judging by the logo the infamous private security group who is trigger happy antics further disgrace the very name mercenary but i never heard that. they were dead

aid to countries that u.s. national security advisor john bolton who unveiled the strategy said that billions had been spent ineffectively. delve deeper into the story. this regarding that it reads more like a declaration of war than a strategy and this plan is for the good of africa promises john bolton this coming from a guy whose boss trump infamously referred to several african nations as something that i can't mention on there the predatory practices pursued by china and russia stunt economic growth in africa threaten the financial independence of african nations and pose a significant threat to u.s. national security interest its interest in logic so when china or russia or someone else you don't like lends an african nation money that's debt colonialism almost financial slavery when america does it it's investment for africa's own good well for mentioning is that russia's trade with the continent pales into insignificance when compared to the us or china look at this realize this highway hydro power stat

the u.s. military in what is known as the members military council are the forces on the ground but the turkish government and the syrian opposition say the council is a front for the y.p. g a group they consider terrorists and separatists who have exploited the fight against eisel to carve out a state of their own members is among predominantly arab areas under why peachey control. damascus has been making its position known state media has been broadcasting images from the white b.g. controlled region of what it says are protests against a possible turkish offensive the government has accused turkey of territorial ambitions turkey's main objective in syria is to prevent the establishment of a kurdish state along its borders so as not to inflame separatist sentiment among its own kurdish population it's not clear if turkey will accept y.p. g.'s rule to be replaced by that of the syrian government but if it does it will demand guarantees that the y.t.d. is rendered ineffective. turkey's presid

the u.s. is steady. with opec in the example, you have 28 billion barrel build year on year. 20 million of that has come from iran. it comes down to the distilling down to country level and tank level, to be able to look at where are the draws and where are the bills? -- the builds? that is the interesting thing we have seen in the past few months. going back to the fall around september, we were looking at an incremental continued build. there is a big delta that is developing here from a latency effect. you can either trade off of that well or have an exposure. we have seen that pattern, these divergent builds versus draws and to be able to help people distill that down. alix: does a 1.2 million barrel per day cut next year do it? andy: that is the important question. you had opec cut by 1.2 million barrels per day. you have other things going on as well. on the negative side, there are headwinds regarding demand. worries with threat of trade wars, how robust is emerging-market country demand? stronger

u.s. alliances and unambiguous approach to china and russia. no doubt, the last straw for mattis was the president's plan withdraw for syria. two officials tell cnn that mattis was quote livid. for more, cnn's barbara starr at the pentagon. >> reporter: alison and dave, an administration official tells cnn that secretary mattis decided early thursday morning at 7:30 that he needed to go to the white house one more time and meet with president trump and try to convince him not to withdrawal u.s. troops from syr syria. mattis was concerned about the fate of the kurdish fighters that the u.s. has backed. as a military man, it is a terrible thing to leave your friends on the battle field that you promised to stay and support. that was a big problem for mattis to leave the kurds behind and withdrawal u.s. troops. he met with president trump at 3:00. expressed his views. the president did not change his mind. mattis had a resignation letter ready to go telling the president in that letter that h

alan was the deputy u.s. trade representative in the u.s. government way back in the carter administration. when he was one of the key architects of the tokyo in the gatt which launched many of the changes in the global system. he also chaired the seal committee at the time which dealt with overcapacity problems that have some similar residences today. alan was a pioneer in many respects. in the international trading system now and then. prior to serving as deputy was head of the office of general counsel and after earlier serving in the u.s. treasury, with a wide variety of international legal issues. while lawyering in dc, alan was also chairman for many years of foreign national trade council. chairman of the board of the institute for trade and commercial diplomacy. and literally, one of the dean of international trade committee in the united states peer were delighted when he was appointed to his current position at the wto when your go. today's topic is the status of the global trading system. some of you may have noticed that larry ku

u.s. delegation heads to beijing in january. good morning, everyone. good afternoon if you are watching from asia. welcome to "bloomberg surveillance." i'm francine lacqua and london. there has been quite a lot of movement over the last couple days. euro-dollar. i'm also looking at the stoxx 600. they are pretty much flat, but they beginning significantly earlier on. if you look at the main movers, technology is gaining. we did have the rally that is phasing out when it comes to europe and asia. we did have american wti at $45.51. coming up, we are joined by the chief economist at img. will focus aations lot on what is happening in the markets, what will happen om 2019. then the chief economist at strata guess research partners joins us at 11:00 a.m. london time. let's get straight to the bloomberg first word news. , francine. a u.s. government delegation is reportedly traveling to beijing for trade talks the week of january 7. bloomberg sources, the deputy u.s. trade representative will l

the commander of u.s. air forces central command lieutenant general geoffrey harrigan severely criticised both the coalition and the saudi authorities. the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrets went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi lets coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack. and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident and what we want to see is a stop to the fighting what we want to see is stop to the humanitarian suffering what we want to see is a halt to civilian casualties members of the security council met and had a briefing from the assistant secretary general on the recent attacks.

but tricked them to do what u.s. intelligence has concluded russia wanted donald trump to win the presidency knowing that african-americans by and large were supporting hillary clinton they need to find some kind of way to intercept that leaders in the black church say russian hackers preyed on african-americans historic disenchantment with the u.s. political system by tying that system to clinton and encouraging a paralyzing anger against her they polarize they highlighted the issues of. blacks in america and. again it was divide and conquer the protests that filled the charlot streets garnered national attention and inflamed racial tensions just weeks before the presidential election when it came time to cast a ballot the voter turnout among black americans was down seven percent from the previous presidential election now the question is how much of that was due to russia's influence and was it enough to determine the winner do you think donald trump would be president if the russians had interfered directly targe

and you know maybe the u.s. government might some point give assurances that he won't face the death penalty but so far the u.s. government has not given those assurances and even if they did that would not preclude him facing charges which could land him in prison for thirty to fifty years and that is of most would be a most unjust punishment for person an organization that he is part of who simply published published information which also have been in the public domain from the get go. donald trump has expressed confidence that a trade deal with china will be reached in ninety days as planned despite the arrest of the chief financial officer and daughter of the founder of chinese smartphone giant who are way in canada she's now facing extradition to the u.s. over alleged violation of sanctions on iran and the prospect of a new trade deal was seen as a sign of a thaw in u.s. china relations which have been severely damaged by a terrorist war or something the arrest of who are always c.f.o. could scupper the la

the u.s. existing u.s. is defenses can't deal with them but existing u.s. defenses aren't that good against regular missiles so it is start this. doing away with the a.b.m. treaty is start a new arms race but i think you know we're just building more and more nuclear weapons when we should be trying to limit them and the new start treaty is coming which is the arms limitation for the longer range missiles is coming up in twenty twenty one so you know that would be a good time to cool you know cool off the arms race and you know lock in some limits on these types of weapons as well. which is times newspaper has printed a highly controversial interview with a chechen fighting against anti-government forces in eastern ukraine now the head of his battalion admitted that his fighters wage jihad in syria and that the leader was even part of a terror group committing atrocities in russia in a patrol car has more. so a big piece in the times on chechens on east ukraine front lines from a few dozens to more than one hundred there shoulder to shoulder with kiev's arm

under the u.s. export control laws, for instance, if a u.s. company was operating a lab in china and that lab was using a piece of equipment that would have used an export -- required an export license to be sold to a chinese company or transferred to a university, and a foreign individual was going to use that piece of equipment as an employee of that u.s. company, that company would have to apply for what's called a deemed export license. in other words, the technology itself wasn't being transferred to a foreign entity but it was being used by a foreign national within it is cthe confines of t company. my recommendation is that the same request needs to be made if a lab in a university is using the piece of equipment that would have required a deemed export license if it had been used in a lab abroad. there is a reciprocity that seems logical to me, but when it was proposed last time to the commerce department, it was shot down. >> can you send us that in writing, that explanation? >> yes, senator. >> that would be wonderful to have informa

the u.s. army central commander in the middle east michael x. garrets went to riyadh's to urge the saudis to conduct a thorough investigation. donald trump told fox news that the saudi led coalition in yemen didn't know how to use an american made bomb in the attack. and the un security council called for a credible and transparent investigation into the incident. we call on the saudi led coalition to conduct a thorough and transparent investigation into the incident and what we want to see is a stop to the fighting where we want to see is stopped to the humanitarian suffering what we want to see is a halt to civilian casualties. members of the security council met and heard to briefing from the assistant secretary general on the recent attacks inside which resulted in large numbers of civilian casualties including children they expressed their grave concern at these and all that the recent attacks in yemen. can be. manage a decade in the logic. of almost all of them are near me i'm a do it. y

trump is openly a betting these kinds of atrocities with u.s. tax dollars, u.s. equipment, u.s. diplomatic cover, and he knows exactly -- he sees the pictures of the slaughter of innocent men, women, children in yemen. a poor country of 27 billion people on the verge of national starvation. when was the last time we saw something like that? connected right to the oval office? atald trump, look yourself in the mirror. if you don't like the looks of a war criminal, stop the war in yemen now. amy: ralph nader, we want to thank you for being with us, longtime consumer advocate, corporate critic, and former presidential candidate. his most recent book "to the , ramparts: how bush and obama paved the way for the trump presidency and why it isn't too late to reverse course." when we come back, we look at a bomb made by raytheon in tucson, arizona, and how it made its way to yemen. the number of people are killed, who died, who was maimed. stay with us. ♪ [music break] amy: this is democracy now!, democracynow.org, the war and peace report. i'm amy goodman. in a historic vote, the u.s

imposed so i think you know from a u.s. stand standpoint trump didn't get everything he wants but i think it's a pretty good deal and i think this could be a lot of pressure on democrats and republicans to get this done hey alex i want to ask you sort of a goofy question you know there is this issue with the name you know it's not nafta anymore it's a u.s. canada mexico a greek agreement i mean why is this such a big deal why not just continue to call it nafta or nafta to what you just said was what trump is calling it it's not what everybody else is calling it so everybody's got a name for it it seems and canada has its name the u.s. doesn't sort of mexico and trump thinks that what you just said is actually has the best ring to it but not justin trudeau just trudeau who has a very different name for it he's basically calling it the new nafta and then we have the canadian ministry of global affairs there say it's the candidate us mexico agreement and then you have in mexico they did a little poll to see on twitter who do t

playing good u.s. bad u.s. hasn't done much for peace in afghanistan where the taliban washington's sworn enemy is on the rise despite talks and peace conferences in moscow in geneva this year no concrete solutions have surfaced neither with the u.s. the afghanistan government or the taliban coming to the same table mistrust and inconsistency is the name of the game in this conflict and the u.s. a stance on pakistan is no exception. that is the program for this hour here on oxy international there are plenty more of your world wide headlines for you at the top of the hour hope you can join us that. is finding this out the need. to. get our eyes out the powder but i again gaghan down which island. yes this time i did you. know i'm going to tell is going to go to the bridge. but then when i got older it was the other side the most almost the whole cd i mean look if you get the ok you know has a funny but it was you know i love it when you. get out. and write down the bank call for the work on the bayswater of che

matthew: the u.s. economy has thrived in no small part because we have a fed that is independent from the political process. i think we benefit from allowing jay powell to look at the data and talk to business owners in the u.s. and make the decision they see fit. jay powell and his colleagues are looking at a strong labor market, they can't have labor force growth and wage growth be faster than the fundamentals. that's what they are trying to work through. david: is there a dilemma here in the sense that we pump money into the global economy. now we are trying to withdraw some of that. is it inevitable that we will have a slowdown and asset prices will go down? matthew: that's a great question. we will have uncertainty about what the implication is. they wills announced taper their quantitative easing program. we don't know what that will mean for asset prices. if you go back 10 years, many voices were worried with quantitative easing taking home. it could be massively inflationary. that didn't happen

the u.s. congress in particular but, of course, the justice department is very much involved with this as well. and then the second is that china has reached a point of pure competitor status in high-tech areas at his move into high-tech areas in a way that could dominate those areas, in a way that could jeopardize american economic dominance and economic leadership in the world and its national security. robert lighthizer has said in his 301 report, incidentally mr. light house or '07 25 footnotes to back up everything he says, was one of these -- streetlight hauser. he's one of these kind of people. as a professional i like that anyway, the upshot of this is that he says china's economic practices are an existential threat of the united states. we all know here that u.s. uses that language when talks with soviet union, nuclear weapons, posing an existential threat to the united states. this sense of urgency that china might dominate these areas and their close to doing it, argues that someth

the u.s. has criticized the cooperation between the associated press and china's agency. for propaganda. with. a us judge. who died after being released from north korean custody. every hour this is international welcome to. the u.s. defense secretary spent his christmas working at the pentagon even after donald trump's decision to remove him from office two months earlier than he had planned to resign. wrote this holiday to american soldiers in this world awash in change you hold the line. because of you you'll fellow citizens safe at home. last week after the u.s. president announced his decision to withdraw troops from syria he also advised donald trump to keep troops in afghanistan opposing the idea of using private contractors in a war there now it seems that's precisely what could be happening next. imagine you're sitting there on your porch reading about guns and huntin and all things good and then you see this ad we are coming blackwater judging by the logo the infamous private securit

so u.s. media is reporting the united states is planning to fully withdraw its troops from syria within sixty to one hundred days president trump has been tweeting about it as well talking about the defeat of iceland syria and saying was the only reason that he was there during his presidency they have been about two thousand u.s. troops on the ground in syria mainly training local forces to fight against eisel but in recent days turkey's president reject typer one threatens a new offensive it gets kurdish forces these are the ones the united states supports in the north of syria if the u.s. does withdraw it will still have a sizeable presence in the region at least around five thousand two hundred troops over the border in iraq back in april defense secretary james madison said america wanted to maintain a presence in syria until a peace agreement could be reached to end the country's brutal civil war so has the team covering this story out diplomatic editor james bays is in new york with hi

u.s. team would be heading to beijing in early january. perhaps that could help when it comes to sentiment overall. take a look at what we saw when it came to the u.s. indices gaining 4.5% as we were on the brink of a bear market. 4.5% higher when it comes to most major indices, which rarely happens. last time we saw all three bounceback was 2011, so some say the price action is unusual, perhaps some short covering given how bearish the market was leading to christmas. i want to mention chinese stocks are hired today. -- higher today. the shanghai composite seems to be finding support. we have dipped below that three times this year. the last one was on tober when we saw the -- was october when we saw regulators in the pboc trying to reassure the market. over the week there was speculation that there was state buying of large caps earlier this week and news they would replenish capital for chinese banks, the bank of china issuing a perpetual bond. so for now that could be the line in the s

they could because the u.s. was industrialized this was the age of the urban industrial transformation. there were lots of jobs digging ditches, yielding subways, factories, working in factories. anybody who had a strong back to take it vantage of that. this was a point in history where roughly 90% of the world's industrial capacity, and say 1900, 90% was either in europe or the u.s. and maybe canada. those were basically the industrialized zones. microphone over here. >> was there a slowdown during the great depression in the u.s.? or was it pretty quick? >> yes. i'm going to say something about that in a minute. there was a slowdown, and not only during the great depression, but during any industrial turndown there would be a falling off in migration which only makes sense because if the demand was for industrial labor, anything that reason the rate of industrial unemployment is going to cut into migration. let me sum this up. immigration is always about push and pull factors. there weren see is these push fac

u.s. china and russia it comes just a few months after he boosted the pentagon's budget precisely to count to moscow and beijing. after waves of nationwide protests in the most violent riots in paris in half a century the french prime minister reportedly announces he will suspend the controversial hike in the cost of fuel also to come. silicon valley to know just how ethical in our tradition the military. head of microsoft promises to hand over the company's cutting edge technologies to the pentagon and despite resistance from some of his employees also. u.s. radio stations are planning the christmas classic baby it's cold outside after a backlash from the two activists all guests debate the issue. i think there's a lot of outrage i think women are really angry what's behind it is you know women want relief from underway change there are a lot of important issues right now and when we focus on songs like this and try to get it out i mean we're paying a message that means he has just become

meantime the u.s. plan to pull its troops from syria's cause anger among the mothers and wives of local fighters killed by i saw they gathered near what's thought to be an american base in aleppo province appealing for the decision to be reversed and for the u.s. to help the syrian democratic forces. america turned his back on us as we continue to find. i know it was our airline of any rock and. why did they leave i said this time. you know we went to the airfield they promised that they would not leave and now they've sold us out. ahead on this channel china is denying american allegations that it's running a huge global hacking operation details when we come back. china much bigger economic power lunch or wall inter. i think. you have to live with that. and there's lots of advantages that the europeans jethro but as well as america. again folks watching this morning china has denied us allegations that it's behind an extensive hacking campaign in a dozen different countries it comes after two chinese